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Oh, great idea (plans to steal it)....

The Blackhouse
Peter May

The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people's fear of God. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and revenge.

When a brutal murder on the island bears the hallmarks of a similar slaying in Edinburgh, police detective Fin Macleod is dispatched north to investigate. But since he himself was raised on Lewis, the investigation also represents a journey home and into his past.

Each year the island's men perform the hunting of the gugas, a savage custom no longer necessary for survival, but which they cling to even more fiercely in the face of the demands of modern morality. For Fin the hunt recalls a horrific tragedy, which after all this time may have begun to demand another sacrifice.

The Blackhouse is a crime novel of rare power and vision. Peter May has crafted a page-turning murder mystery that explores the darkness in our souls, and just how difficult it is to escape the past.

Jackie wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "In for five, please!
PIFM"

Here are 5 to start your year! I chose 4 series and 1 stand alone.

WWII

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Ha you know me so well....... excellent picks!

Joy:

Time to pick! Pairs are in the first post.

Looking forward to having you around, Beth!

You'll have to let me know how that memoir is! I've heard about it but not read it. If you are interested in the abdication, was really good.

Dee, that book has a gorgeous cover.

Alondra wrote: "Added.... 🤦🏾"

Ha, I saw that you added it in my feed. LOL!

I've read one other in that series, Bill, and really liked it.

Gaslight Mysteries

Murder on Astor Place --Finished 1/1/2025!
Murder on Washington Square
Murder on Mulberry Bend
Murder on Marble Row
Murder on Lenox Hill
Murder in Little Italy
Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
Murder on St Nicholas Avenue
Murder in Morningside Heights
Murder in the Bowery
Murder on Union Square
Murder on Trinity Place
Murder on Pleasant Avenue
Murder on Wall Street
Murder on Madison Square
Murder on Bedford Street
Murder in Rose Hill

Louisiana Hot Shot
The Avid Angler
Mystery in Pink (Stone)
Tear down and die (Slan)
Death by Candlelight (Davies)
Scot Free (McPherson)
A Sticky Inheritance (James)
Mozzarella murder (Murphy)
Good bad witch (Medina)
Pumpkin spice and all things nice (Greenwood)
Witch in Progress (Elle Adams)
Murder on Nob Hill (Tallman)
High Noon (Biglow)
Moon Lake Sleuths (Kuhl)
A Wild Ghost Chase (Elle Adams)
Medium of Brandon Bay (Mason)

FDR's Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force That Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Read January 2025
Royal Feud: The Dark Side of the Love Story of the Century
The Least of These My Brethren: A Doctor's Story of Hope and Miracles in an Inner-City AIDS Ward
The Dorothy Parker Murder Case
The Ten Habits of Naturally Slim People
House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays
The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication Read January 2025
Mayer and Thalberg: The Make-Believe Saints
A Damned Serious Business: My Life in Comedy
Murder, Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate
Bring on the Empty Horses
Parris Mitchell of Kings Row
Ourselves to Know
Sylvia Cary
An Untold Story : The Roosevelts of Hyde Park
24 Hours

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood--Finished 3Q25
Bogie and Bacall -- 3/2025
The Great Halifax Explosion--Finished 4Q25
Something Lost Something Gained --Finished 11/8/2025
The News Sorority--Finished 4Q25
Unlikely Heroes (FDR)--Finished 4Q25
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue-- Finished 11/10/2025
Hot Dog Money--Finished 4Q25
Nothing but the Night --Finished 4Q25
The Friday Afternoon Club--Finished 4Q25
Becoming the Ex-Wife
No Rules Rules --3/2025 very good
Mercury and Me -- 3/2025 liked but didn't love.
Read 1/3/2025
The Demon of Unrest--Finished 4Q25 Excellent!
Worth More Dead - Read on 1/1/2025

I Come as a Thief: A Novel
A Wedding in Great Neck
The Imposter: An Addictive Psychological Suspense
Black Mountain Breakdown
Foursome
Lake County
When We Were Friends
The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything
A Girls' Guide to Winning the War
The Mistake
Stage Door Canteen
When Women Were Dragons
Little Fires Everywhere
A Spanish Sunrise
The Wife You Know
The Blame -- 3/2025, tiresome.

Argue all you want that I should put these under the "independent" topic. History teaches us that *these* I usually finish and the "Independent" will carry on unfinished into future years. So I'm bowing to the teachings of history. List forthcoming.

Aimee Leduc:
-- Read 6/2025






Nathan Heller -- I am loving this series! Finished all of the below and am now two books farther in than the below list...
-- Read 4/2025
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-- Read 4/2025
-- Read 4/2025
-- Read 4/2025
-- Read 4/2025
-- Read 4/2025
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Read one book from each of these series and if I don't like the book, ditch the series guiltlessly!

Ugh, I never remember to read the "real" books.... list forthcoming